Gerald Vizenor
Selected Bibliography
Slight Abrasions: A Dialogue in Haiku (1966)
Thomas James White Hawk (1968)
Escorts to White Earth, 1868-1968: 100 Year Reservation (1968)
Tribal Scenes and Ceremonies (1976)
Wordarrows: Indians and Whites in the New Fur Trade (1978)
Earthdivers: Tribal Narratives on Mixed Descent (1981)
The People Named the Chippewa: Narrative Histories (1984)
Griever: an American Monkey King in China (1986)
The Trickster of Liberty: Tribal Heirs to a Wild Baronage (1988)
Interior Landscapes: Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors (1990)
Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles (1990)
Shadow Distance: A Gerald Vizenor Reader (1994)
Chancers: A Novel (2000)
The Everlasting Sky: Voices of the Anishinabe People (2000)
George Morrison: Anishinaabe Expressionist Artist (2006)
Bear Island: The War at Sugar Point (2006)
Shrouds of White Earth (2010)
Gerald Vizenor (October 22, 1934-) is a novelist, essayist, and poet from Minneapolis. After serving in the National Guard and the U.S. Army, Vizenor studied at New York University and received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota in 1960. Born to a Chippewa father, Vizenor has spent a great deal of time on the White Earth Reservation and served as an advocate and director for the American Indian Employment Guidance Center. He would later go on to write for the Minneapolis Tribune and teach at various universities, including the University of Minnesota from 1977-1985.
In 1988, Vizenor won the American Book Award for his novel Griever: An American Monkey King in China and remains a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. He is the founder and series editor of the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies series at the University of Oklahoma Press. His other works include fiction, poetry, and scholarship, mostly focusing on topics related to Native American discourses.
More information on Gerald Vizenor from the Minnesota Historical Society.